Foliage

['fəʊlɪɪdʒ] or ['folɪɪdʒ]

解釋/意思:

(n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

(n.) A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.

(v. t.) To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.

贾维斯整理

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Leaves, clusters of leaves.

安吉洛手打

解釋/意思:

n. leaves: a cluster of leaves: (archit.) a representation of leaves flowers and branches used for ornamentation.—adjs. Fō′liaged worked like foliage; Fō′liar pertaining to leaves: resembling leaves.—v.t. Fō′liāte (orig.) to beat into a leaf: to cover with leaf-metal.—adj. Fō′liāted beaten into a thin leaf: decorated with leaf ornaments: (mus.) having notes added above or below as in a plain-song melody.—ns. Fō′liātion the leafing esp. of plants: the act of beating a metal into a thin plate or of spreading foil over a piece of glass to form a mirror: (geol.) the alternating and more or less parallel layers or folia of different mineralogical nature of which the crystalline schists are composed: (archit.) decoration with cusps lobes or foliated tracery; Fō′liature foliation.

伯尼編輯